Three Essays On The Theory Of Sexuality - Couverture souple

An Unabridged Edition to include, but not limited to: Introduction to Translation – Author's Preface to the Second Edition – Author's Preface to the Third Edition – The Sexual Aberrations – Deviation in Reference to the Sexual Object – Inversion – The Behavior of Inverts – Conception of Inversion – Degeneration – Innateness – Explanation of Inversion – The Relation of Bisexuality – The Sexual Object of Inverts – The Sexual Aim of Inverts – The Sexually Immature and Animals as Sexual Objects – Deviation in Reference to the Sexual Aim – Anatomical Transgression – Overestimation of the Sexual Object – Sexual Utilization of the Mucous Membrane of the Lips and Mouth – Sexual Utilization of the Anal Opening – The Significance of Other Parts of the Body – Unfit Substitutes for the Sexual Object – Fetichism – Fixation of Precursory Sexual Aims – The Appearance of New Intentions – Touching and Looking – Sadism and Masochism – General Statements Applicable To All Perversions – Variation and Disease – The Psychic Participation in the Perversions – Two Results – The Sexual Impulse in Neurotics – Psychoanalysis – Results of Psychoanalysis – Neurosis and Perversion – Partial Impulses and Erogenous Zone – Explanation of the Manifest Preponderance of Sexual Perversions in the Psychoneuroses – Reference to the Infantilism of Sexuality – The Infantile Sexuality – The Neglect of the Infantile – Infantile Amnesia – The Sexual Latency Period of Childhood & Its Interruptions – The Sexual Inhibition – Reaction Formation and Sublimation – The Manifestations of the Infantile Sexuality – Thumbsucking – Autoerotism – The Sexual Aim of the Infantile Sexuality – The Characters of the Erogenous Zones – The Infantile Sexual Aim – The Masturbatic Sexual Manifestations – The Activity of the Anal Zone – The Activity of the Genital Zone – The Return of the Infantile Masturbation – Polymorphous–Perverse Disposition – Partial Impulses – The Infantile Sexual Investigation – Inquisitiveness – The Riddle of the Sphinx – The Castration Complex – Birth Theories – Sadistic Conception of the Sexual Act – The Typical Failure of the Infantile Sexual Investigation – The Phases of Development of the Sexual Organization – Pregenital Organizations – Ambivalence – The Two Periods of Object Selection – The Sources of the Infantile Sexuality – Mechanical Excitation – Muscular Activity – Affective Processes – Intellectual Work – Diverse Sexual Constitutions – The Paths of Opposite Influences – The Transformation of Puberty – The Primacy of the Genital Zones and the Fore–Pleasure – The Sexual Tension – Fore–pleasure Mechanism – Dangers of the Fore–pleasure – The Problem of Sexual Excitement – The Rôle of the Sexual Substance – Overestimation of the Internal Genitals – Chemical Theories – The Theory of the Libido – Differentiation Between Man and Woman – The Leading Zones in Man and Woman – The Object–Finding – The Sexual Object of the Nursing Period – Infantile Fear – Incest Barriers – The After Effects of the Infantile Object Selection – Prevention of Inversion – Summary – The Factors Disturbing the Development – Constitution and Heredity – Further Elaboration – Repression – Sublimation – Accidental Experiences – Prematurity – Temporal Factors – Adhesion – Fixation

The standard edition of Freud's seminal theory of the psychology of sexuality
These three essays -- "The Sexual Aberrations," "Infantile Sexuality," and "The Transformations of Puberty" -- are among Sigmund Freud's most important works. Here, Freud outlines the core features of libido theory, his grand view of the psychology of sexuality: sexual perversion is a matter of human nature and "normal" sexual behavior only appears later in life, sexual urges begin in infancy, and these urges turn their attention outward as we mature through puberty.
Freud first wrote Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality in 1905 and spent the next two decades making major revisions to the text. This edition offers Freud's complete vision of the sexual self, in the definitive James Strachey translation.